In my moment of disappointment, I looked at a few *gasp* practical vehicles. I found a Toyota Sequoia with under 100k miles! It’s black, 3 rows, but doesn’t have that rugged look I love (the Escalade doesn’t either, but more than this). However, it’s an 01. So I’m still looking at Yukons and Suburbans, but now I’m just searching “Black suv†instead of a specific make and model. Unless I come across something WOW, I am really wanting black.

And it’s gone. 😭😭😭😭😭

While the babies do suffer, they’re not forced to go cold turkey! They’ll be in the hospital for months on morphine and whatever is needed to ease their symptoms.

Yes, yes they are. Truck sounds cooler. :)

Crappers. I will likely need premium gas. :( Sneaker power for most things? Lol

Yukons have more rust. But otherwise the only thing that stood out was a brake line busting.

I forgot about gas. :( Yes, more electronic issues because there are more. But my car friend is very well stocked. His computer can tell if codes were deleted, and he’ll be checking that when he looks at it. :)

I linked the wrong Escalade! Lol http://www.reinersautosales.com/2004-Cadillac-Escalade/Used-SUV/WestBabylon-NY/9152161/Details.aspx

I’m mostly set. Friend is going to check out the Escalade.

Captain's second row does limit me, but I still get 2 more people than my Explorer. Could always tie a car seat between the second row seats. :lol:

So far the Escalade is winning on few platforms. The only hold out might be my car guy. If he says either is fine, probably Escalade. If he says no, I'm going Yukon. He'll be the one doing all the work! Lol. If he says Yukon, I may try to convince him to go Escalade.

Both trucks are within a year. Escalade is 04 with 132k miles. Yukon is 05 with 161k miles.

http://www.reinersautosales.com/2015-Cadillac-Escalade/Used-SUV/WestBabylon-NY/9877383/Details.aspx http://www.reinersautosales.com/2005-GMC-YukonDenali/Used-SUV/WestBabylon-NY/10553927/Details.aspx Neither of these trucks falls under practical in any way, but I need bigger. I've been eyeing GMC Yukons. But when I called about this one, he mentioned the Escalade. I have to admit that an Escalade does sound nice. They're both in my price range. I'm selling my Explorer for a few hundred to put aside. The original plan was finding something as under $5,000 as possible and that "extra" plus Explorer money would be used to hook it up (hearing loss. I am putting hard hitting speakers in whatever I get!). Brake lines are problems on these trucks, so my friend was going to replace right off the bat. Between the 2, the Escalade should have a better sound system to begin with. But the second row is not a bench, limiting space. The Yukon is missing its third row, which defeats the purpose of something this size. The guy said they're working on getting it. With almost my entire budget going to the truck, I may not be able to get that row for some time. I could, from Explorer money, but then that cuts into the fun budget. They have similar maintenance costs. The Escalade likely has a more expensive suspension system, and is more electrical than Yukon. I'm not big on luxury. I like trucks and all their rugged glory, which is not an Escalade. But it's an Escalade. Lol These trucks look jumpable and I really need to do it fast!

Lowest instrumental. I’ll look at those links. :)

I’m trying to find the lowest bass/music frequency of 2 songs, and the only thing I’m finding is vocal critique. Dangerous Woman- Ariana Grande, and Earned It- The Weekend. Any idea how to find this?

Awesome and yay for the success! If you do it a few times and get comfortable, try following the gps and see what happens. Could be fun, or could be something you’ll never do again! Lol. Then of course do it without gps. Write out the directions, but keep it a little more simple than gps would. I got attached to my gps just before moving to PA 7 YEARS ago, and am still having a hard time navigating the area 30-45 minutes of me where everything is. I keep saying I need to grab a map, but never remember to do so.

It’s pretty much all of it I guess. She went home last night, but will come back a bit today for meds and bath. She wants to sleep over, but is a bit too emotional about it. I’ll leave it up to her to build the trust stronger. I’m probably going to ask to start her on regular meds fairly soon. Or if nothing obvious in the spring and summer, I’ll ask at her school physical in August. The problem with that though is that meds aren’t given properly, if at all, at home. When they couldn’t get rid of strep, I got all the kids checked, medicated, and went over twice a day to dose them. So while I can continue to do this, it’s difficult. If it’s a pill with noticeable effects (like 7yo’s adhd meds), they’ll give it. I hesitate to consider singulair because my own have had such a bad time on it.

I’d love to do fish oil! But price and daily dosing is an issue. Did you see very early signs of capd? ETA: mine are both on fish oil. Ds’s is an ADHD 4:1 blend. Dd’s is just a gram of any ol’ fish oil.

She doesn’t do maintenance meds yet. Only nebbed albuterol (sometimes inhaler with spacer, but the spacer gets lost). She’s been using it as long as I’ve known her. CPS actually placed her with me for a week to see if the safety plan care giver wasn’t following recommendations, and to see if she’d get better (she did). I can see the difference in pre and post albuterol, but that’s different and normal from my experience.

Just looking to have a conversation I guess. Doing my best with what I’ve got. This isn’t a judgement on the parents. It’s just fact. All feelings for the kids put aside and looking at “treatment†or stimulation I can do when I’m not involved daily. This is about one of my extra kids. She’s now 3 (3’s are a handful! I know!). From 16 months to maybe 2.5ish, this kiddo had an insane attention span! My 13yo’s behavior analyst would even comment about it, and about how this little girl could keep ds on track. She was very slow to talk, but amazingly patient and a great communicator. She followed multi step directions and was curious in a way that I was certain she was seriously high level intelligence. She picked up signs like crazy. Toilet trained a bit before 2. Could dress herself before 2. She was and is extremely picky, and was doing feeding therapy with an OT at my house for a while. Now at 3, she’s talking a bit more, but not in a conversation way (I’m not expecting worm hole chats! Lol). Her question answering is more off than it once was, and her question asking is nothing more than “why?†even when “why†doesn’t really makes sense, and she doesn’t care to hear the reason anyway. While curious, she’s more destructive than constructive. You have to get eye contact before asking her to do something, and she’s lost the focus she once had. Very often she looks like she’s going to cry, so I’m very gentle with requests and repeats. She’s got some extreme separation anxiety, but was removed for 2 months at 16-18 months and that could be a root cause. After going home, she still loved to be here, but recently has been a bit harder to distract. However, she’s been sick with one virus after another since about September. She has budding asthma that’s part of why she’s not getting better, and the adults at home smoke in the house. She’s here because of being sick, so there’s a lot of attempted distraction over going home ( her parents want me to keep her a bit to get her better, but also because they have a cold and are exhausted. Lol). Me taking a sick or hyper kid (they have 5) is a regular thing. This one was here a week with coxsackie, and again when her breathing wouldn’t settle. Others I’ve had because of mood, aggression, poor school behavior, or whatever. I almost always take the baby when sick. I used to take this one every morning for a bit, and that changes recently. Could be another cause of her anxiety here. I’ll fix that. I’m not seeing anything big or bad with the 3yo. I don’t see regression per say, but more like maybe she wasn’t stimulated. She’s been though and still lives in a decent amount of neglect. The kind that’s screaming neglect to those that know them, but where CPS is just shy of safety requirements to keep an open case. Can I “train†her back out of the ADHD-like symptoms? (Can’t think of a good word here). I do not think ADHD is poor parenting! But there’s an obvious change here. For comparison sake, my ds first had mention of future ADHD at 14 months! Can neglect alone look like ADHDish in kids? At the moment, I’m well aware that illness and poor sleep alone takes a toll. But it’s been a gradual “decline,†or a gradual lack of cognitive development compared to where she was and the path she seemed to be on. It’s hard to explain without putting up bigger red flags that I don’t think are actually there. When I have her or anyone, it’s a consistent routine that she follows and knows. She gets a bath anytime she comes over at whatever time, and then requests teeth brushing. She knows she’ll have another bath before bed as well if she’s staying. She knows to sit at the table for meals and snacks, though lately has been trying to leave to run around (I’m going to put the booster back on the chair to fix this). She takes her nebulized meds without issue (she won’t at home). I do make her help clean up, but that’s getting really bad. She’s been having accidents consistently 1-3 times a week, and still wets the bed (she was only night wetting once a week max from like 20 months. 7 and 10yo siblings do still wet, but it confuses the 7yo). Her parents say no accidents at home, but her siblings say otherwise, including peeing on a tablet. Oh, her vitamin D is low, so her doc has me dosing once a week while I’m there. She sort of goes to Headstart, but has been sick too often for any consistency. What else can I do here?

I only have ringtones for people I want to hear from, and 1 I don’t need to stop what I’m doing to check. One Missed Call is a ring and text tone for a certain person. For my home phone and kid phone, it’s the Stewie mom mom mom one. For the not caring to jump person, it’s just a ding. My father’s ring tone is silent with no vibrate. Lol

I am so sorry. :( I know this doesn’t matter to you right now, but you did not fail her.

Opt out. My extra 7 year old still properly fits one of my harnessed seats, so I’m he goes. I think his 3yo will be out of the harness before him! Lol

The only way I could see it doing anything for adhd is if there’s sleep apnea, which can look like adhd during the day, or make the adhd worse (Same for reflux messing with sleep, or any other condition that messes with sleep that would be improved by being inclined). Otherwise I don’t see how just adhd could be improved without accompanying sleep disturbances.

I have a few people that always seem to have last minute emergencies. Little things that add up and it gets really annoying. I already do stuff for these people. Really big stuff. So the little was really starting to piss me off. We went away for xmas and I realized that after they texted about me being the last possible person they had to help, they still got the thing done, and I wasn’t here. So I say no now to a lot of little things. I’m starting to say no to some of the bigger things too. (With some of the big things, they were NOT getting done before I came along, so I won’t just disappear)